Fear and Loathing in Florida

Your editors beckon George Bush and Al Gore to exercise leadership and seek a statesman-like solution to the looming controversies about the election results in Florida. Here's how they might.

It seems impossible to foreclose or dismiss litigation in Palm Beach and maybe other Florida counties. It is foreseeable that appeals could endure for months. If a constitutional crisis isn't provoked by the possibility of one person winning the popular vote and another the electoral vote, surely it will be if matters aren't finally...